Sentences with phrase «just accountability measures»

Not exact matches

The answer is not just to ignore those skills — it's to look for better measures; it's to be more flexible in terms of how that accountability works.

Bloomberg has just three years left on his mayoral term, and the focus is expected to stay on items such as boosting charter schools and working toward accountability measures.

But for proponents of accountability, it's just as easy to hold up these educators as an example of why strong objective systems are needed to oversee and measure educators» performance.

These lessons focus primarily on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just test scores.

Accountability measures should inquire into whether schools are taking the steps that research shows can lead to an appropriate, holistic education, not just an academic outcome.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Either way, high school graduation rates just aren't a great measure for accountability purposes.

And the second piece, though, is broadening out and redefining accountability so that we can try new things, so that it's not just about the two tests, that it's about high school graduation, but not just about high school graduation, that it's about other ways of measuring student progress and thinking about how kids learn, and engaging kids like through project - based instruction.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is flip - flopping just weeks after he said he would not support expansion of Wisconsin's statewide tax - subsidized private voucher school program unless accountability measures were in place.

The test score issue comes as California's school accountability system is undergoing a broad revision, as the Brown administration and state schools chief Tom Torlakson search for more achievement measures than just test scores.

School performance measures are used just as much by officials to monitor standards and ultimately Progress 8 is an accountability measure.

The Obama administration just can't any relief from the headaches it has caused itself with its effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability measures.

«When chronic absenteeism is included in the accountability measurement, we would expect that schools will monitor chronic absenteeism more closely and employ measures to reduce it — including working to move students just above the threshold for chronic absenteeism to just below it,» authors of the report said.

Outpacing the rest of the Los Angeles Unified School District — where the union is currently fighting performance accountability measures tooth and nail — Green Dot has just instituted a form of merit pay for teachers.

Idaho's new accountability system, he said, would measure growth, «and not just whether they can pass a test or not.»

«But I'm just not sure that these measures are fine tuned enough to make high stakes accountability decisions with.»

Of course, it could just let the waivers lapse over time and allow No Child's accountability measures to come back into play; this would be preferable.

Although just one component of the greater accountability system, school classification systems are a top priority for states.1 As states design these systems, much of their attention is focused on which indicators of school quality or student success they will use for a more holistic measure of school performance.2 According to ESSA, these new indicators may measure one or more of the following: 3

This includes a broad set of measures for student success; attention to district - level, not just school - level, accountability; development of systems for supporting schools and districts; improvements in how teachers are trained and supported; and accountability for how resources are allocated.

Since Indiana began taking steps to enforce the measures outlined in our school accountability law, the number of schools chronically underperforming has reduced dramatically — from 24 in 2009 to four in 2011, and this year just one school faced state intervention.

As states select indicators for their school classification systems, which are just one part a comprehensive accountability system, they should include measures that are valid, reliable, and drive behavior at the local level, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of college and career readiness.

To create an accountability system that explains not just what outcomes were reached but what decisions led to those outcomes, states should consider measuring the effectiveness of coordination among and between each level of the system: states, districts, and schools.

As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.

Just because educators do not agree with reforms coming down from on high, or even with one another, this does not mean they resist all accountability measures.

Eddy Bermudez explains just why «IT - ing up» is so crucial in the modern world, and then David walks you through the best measures to take in order to do it, from avoiding a malpractice lawsuit to increase accountability and diligence via automation to avoiding billing mistakes and fee disputes by streamlining your billing and invoicing processes.

Even though he should be most familiar with REBBA, he has seldom ever referred to an actual Article, because to do so brings a measure of accountability that just isn't consistent with his «huff and puff» theatrical dabating style.